Fitzgerald's four hits, Tibbs' homer power Reno past Oklahoma City 9-4

Ryan Fitzgerald’s four-hit night gave Reno the fast reset it needed, turning an early hole into a 9-4 win over Oklahoma City on Saturday night at Greater Nevada Field. The Aces did not wait around for one big inning to take control. They kept stacking competitive at-bats, kept the Comets under pressure, and let Fitzgerald and James Tibbs III drive the opener of the six-game series.

Fitzgerald went 4-for-5 and matched a career high with four hits, a night that also gave him a team-leading 29th multi-hit game of the season. It was his fourth four-hit game of 2026, and every time he came up, Reno seemed to be one clean swing or one sharp piece of contact away from widening the gap. His consistency across five trips became the defining individual performance in a game where Reno needed answers quickly after the early deficit.

Tibbs supplied the biggest swing. He hit his Pacific Coast League-leading 21st home run of the season and finished 2-for-5, adding the kind of power that kept Oklahoma City from ever feeling close to a full comeback. Reno’s offense did not have to chase the game once it began to settle in. The lineup kept finding ways to extend innings, and the Comets were forced to defend longer stretches than they wanted on a night when the Aces repeatedly turned contact into momentum.

Noah Miller added another layer to the performance, going 1-for-3 with a walk while extending his hitting streak to eight games. His steady production fit the broader shape of Reno’s night, a lineup effort that kept coming one hitter at a time instead of leaning on a single burst. That mattered against an Oklahoma City club that arrived with one of the stronger first-half records in the Pacific Coast League and left Reno having to absorb a loss that never fully recovered from the opening stretch.

The win mattered most because of how cleanly Reno handled the response. In the opening stretch of the second half, with the Aces beginning the last 75 games at home against Oklahoma City, Saturday’s result gave them an immediate example of the kind of offense that can make an early deficit look smaller than it is and a 9-4 final look even more decisive.